Review of Bad Moon (1996) by Justin A — 02 Feb 2015

A bit too "Lifetime movie of the week" at times. There's some awkward character developments throughout. Michael Pare plays it sympathetically throughout, until the end of the movie when he decides he wants to start calling his sister a bitch, mocking her, and acting like some sort of devious villain. Obviously he WAS the villain, but then it was the first half of the movie where he acted out of character. On the other side of things, the hero of this movie is the dog. The dog had more character than anyone else in the movie! That's impressive.

The story is nothing special. It's typical werewolf flare. Some guy is cursed and struggles to contain that curse. It's the same basic werewolf story since the beginning of werewolf stories. I liked how he would handcuff himself in the woods. It made for one of the funnier scenes in the movie where we see a werewolf handcuffed to a tree.

That's one thing I can definitely appreciate about this movie and it helps make it better than it would have been otherwise. We see the werewolf... a lot. Full body suit and animatronic face. It's nothing impressive and it can look laughably fake, but the effort is applauded. This was around when An American Werewolf in Paris, and to see the costume/animatronic is sooooooo much better than crappy, seriously fake CGI werewolves.

Other than that, it's nothing special. There's some blood and it's nice to see Dennis the menace getting choked by a huge werewolf, but the script is nothing special.